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Justin Trudeau’s welcome call for an end to fear-mongering
“Canada is where a million Muslims live and thrive in a free and open, secular democracy. The world needs more of that, not less of it,” he said. Yet “across Canada, and especially in my home province, Canadians are being encouraged by their government to be fearful of one another.” … The Conservatives “indulge the very same repressive impulse that they profess to condemn,” Trudeau said, by wielding the state’s power to restrict religious freedom and free speech.
Tags: crime prevention, ideology, immigration, multiculturalism, rights, standard of living
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How Harper created a more conservative Canada
Nine years after Stephen Harper was sworn in as prime minister, we are a more conservative land… Absolutely not, you say? Then would you support increasing the GST by two percentage points? Do you want to relax parole eligibility for sex offenders? Would you get behind some big new national program, even if it infuriated Quebec and Alberta? … If a ship filled with refugee claimants appears, should we just let them in? And how do you think your neighbours would answer these questions?
Tags: budget, child care, corrections, crime prevention, economy, globalization, Health, housing, ideology, immigration, Indigenous, jurisdiction, participation, pensions, poverty, rights, tax
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Long-form census is needed for good decision-making
Policy-makers are groping in the dark. So it was good news this week when both municipal and federal politicians shone a new spotlight on the issue… The evidence is mounting that the Harper government’s decision to do away with the compulsory long-form census and replace it with a voluntary National Household Survey – which cost $22 million more to produce – is costing Canada dearly.
Tags: economy, Health, homelessness, housing, ideology, immigration, multiculturalism, participation, poverty, standard of living
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Long-form census crucial to understanding povert
Social scientists have long understood that less educated Canadians, recent immigrants, lower income persons, aboriginal Canadians, young adults living alone, and persons with only a cursory knowledge of either English or French are more difficult to reach through standard survey research. This is exactly why the census is so useful. It collects detailed information on specific neighbourhoods, and the data is of high quality due to its mandatory nature.
Tags: budget, housing, ideology, immigration, Indigenous, multiculturalism, participation, poverty, standard of living
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Ontario must heed alarms on aid for kids in crisis
two issues in particular that need immediate attention: The first is that black kids are way overrepresented in the system. Just 8 per cent of Toronto children under 18 are black, but 41 per cent of kids in care are black. The second is that we’re over-medicating kids in the system. The reporters found that 48.6 per cent of those aged 5 to 17 in foster and group homes are taking behaviour-altering medications. The number jumps to 74 per cent for 10- to 15-year-olds in group homes.
Tags: child care, ideology, immigration, multiculturalism, pharmaceutical, poverty, youth
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How Conservatives changed the nature of Canadian immigration
The Conservatives still admit as many refugees as previous governments – about 12,000 a year – but these are either privately sponsored or brought in under the Office of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. In either case, refugees to Canada are now far more carefully screened than in the past to ensure that they can integrate successfully. Family-class immigration has virtually vanished under the Tories.
Tags: globalization, ideology, immigration, poverty, rights
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Why are so many black children in foster and group homes?
Poverty, inadequate housing, language barriers and poor education aggravate the power imbalance these families experience… A recent report on child poverty in Toronto co-authored by the agency noted that 41 per cent of children of southern and eastern African heritage are growing up poor — more than three times the rate of children with roots in the British Isles. Meantime, 26 per cent of children whose families are from the Caribbean and 25 per cent from North Africa live in poverty.
Tags: child care, ideology, immigration, multiculturalism, poverty, rights, youth
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Time to repopulate Canada’s arrival cities
Up to now, gentrification has been a force of good: Because six out of seven immigrant families purchase houses, and studies show that even poor immigrants have usually become home owners… The next generation of immigrants won’t be able to follow.. [and move] into the middle class. No casually employed person, immigrant or otherwise, can afford a house downtown in a big Canadian city any more… immigration and poverty are both now almost entirely suburban phenomena.
Tags: housing, immigration, participation, poverty
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Canada takes another step away from once-humane refugee policy
in Canada, a crucial piece of legislation has ensured that refugee claimants have access to life-sustaining social assistance from the day they arrive. The Federal-Provincial Fiscal Arrangements Act prohibits provinces from requiring any minimum period of residence to qualify for social assistance. Buried in the 2015 federal budget, tabled on Oct. 23 as Bill C-43, is a measure that would erase this prohibition.
Tags: budget, ideology, immigration, rights, standard of living
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Harper government should end its attack on refugees’ health
The courts couldn’t be more clear: the federal government’s stubborn refusal to fund health care for refugee claimants is baseless, abusive and must stop… Renewal of federal funding isn’t just the humanitarian way forward (that, alone, is enough to justify the measure); it’s now a matter of avoiding contempt of court… If Ottawa were truly intent on doing the right thing it would restore coverage, not just until an appeal is heard, but in full measure and for the foreseeable future.
Tags: Health, ideology, immigration, standard of living
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